Triangular Theories of Love began with two desires: to collaborate with artists Kris Demeanor and Wojciech Mochniej, and to explore the strange trappings of long-term love — what it means to push against someone, move in response to them, and find yourself somewhere new and unexpected because of it.

A sensuous, multi-dimensional, and quietly tongue-in-cheek work, it traces five couples navigating the terrain of long-term relationship — its rituals, its absurdities, its tenderness. Built from movement, text, and video, the work draws on writings by Leonard Cohen, e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, Jared Herring, and Kris Demeanor, with an original on-screen performance by Demeanor that lends the work an unmistakable voice.

First presented in 2011 and developed with both emerging and established artists from Calgary and France, Triangular Theories of Love was later performed at High Performance Rodeo in 2014 and as part of W&M’s 30th anniversary celebration in 2025.

More than a decade after its last performance in 2014, Triangular Theories of Love returned to the stage — sassier than ever. Melissa Monteros and Wojciech Mochniej brought a stellar cast back into that multi-dimensional world of long-term love, with Kris Demeanor once again present in a special on-screen performance.

The years have only deepened the work’s knowing humour and its emotional honesty about what it takes — and what it costs, and what it gives — to remain in love over a long arc of time.